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Big Data Meets The Beautiful Game
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world by some distance, but for all the media attention and money it attracts, the game has remained staunchly against the adoption of technology, consistently rejecting calls for video replays to be introduced despite other sport’s widespread adoption of them. But not everyone is towing the line. ...
Future Big Data: And a Sustainable One At That
As the world becomes more polluted, populated and congested, and as our resources become ever more depleted, humanity is fast reaching the point where sustainable living will become essential to its very survival. Sustainability – the practice of ensuring that we have, and will continue to have, the resources, materials and water we need to ...
A New Pandemic: ZeroAccess Botnet Takes Over The World
We all know that computer viruses can spread like wildfire, but what with cybersecurity scares hitting the headlines seemingly every other day, people easily become complacent about such things. At least, they do until they see them from space. And then we get a sharp reminder of just how deadly contagious these things can be. ...
Something’s Fishy Here… Robo-Tuna Sinks War On Drugs To New Depths
Would be smugglers and terrorists hoping to sneak drugs and weapons into the country hidden aboard vessels had better think again, for their plans will soon be rumbled by US government’s latest secret weapon – robotic fish. Modeled on the vastly under-rated tuna fish – one of the fastest and most maneuverable of all the ...
Safecast Gets Funding To Map Air Pollution in LA
What with so much conflicting information from government officials following last year’s nuclear disaster in Fukushima, many Japanese turned to an open source map created by Safecast to track local radiation levels in real time. Safecast’s maps proved to be such a hit that now, the organization led by Sean Bonner has been commission by ...
How Your Carrier Might Be Stealing Data From You
Surely they wouldn’t do that, would they? Perhaps not intentionally, but according to a new study from researchers at the UCLA, it’s far more common than anyone seems to realize. Computer World first reported that some (but not all) carriers may be unintentionally charging their customers for data that they never receive. It happens due ...
Tech Giants Unite: Google, Facebook and Friends Team Up To Form Lobby Group
Silicon Valley’s biggest names are bearing down on Washington DC today, in order to fight for a ‘free and innovative’ internet for us all. Under the banner of “The Internet Association”, the likes of Facebook, Google, AOL, and others have officially set up a lobby group in order to make their presence felt at Congress. ...
Apple Maps Is So Confused It Couldn’t Even Score In A Brothel
Apple has just released its iOS 6 operating system, but already it’s come in for some harsh criticism due to numerous inaccuracies and mistakes with its new mapping software that replaced Google Maps. Misplaced towns, cities and businesses, plus dozens of other errors, have drawn dozens of complaints from Apple users, particularly in the UK. ...
Big Money Data: US Military Spending Laid Bare
In this week’s big money data series, we take a closer look at one of the government’s biggest and, perhaps (depending on your viewpoint), one of its most unnecessary annual expenditures; it’s military budget. So large are the numbers being bandied around when we speak of military budgets and the global arms trade that they ...
In-Flight Wi-Fi: More Expensive, But Much, Much Faster (No Thanks To Gogo)
It’s fair to say that since its introduction four years ago, in-flight Wi-Fi hasn’t exactly ‘took off’ in the way that people would have liked. Fact is, most airlines around the world simply don’t offer in-flight Wi-Fi to begin with, and those that do (mostly US airlines) invariably use the provider Gogo, which doesn’t exactly ...